Pious Selinda Goes to Prayers, by William Congreve

Pious Selinda Goes to Prayers

Pious Selinda goes to prayers,
If I but ask the favour;
And yet the tender fool's in tears,
When she believes I'll leave her.   Would I were free from this restraint,
Or else had hopes to win her;
Would she could make of me a saint,
Or I of her a sinner.

poems.one - William Congreve

William Congreve